GENIUS FORUMS

Sometimes people need killin'.

IJesusChrist wrote:first, do you think you will be alive 100 years from now?

No. I will be dead, and long forgotten.

IJesusChrist wrote:c really has little to do with light, it's just the maximum observable speed. You can sure as hell go faster,

No. No I can't.

IJesusChrist wrote: (and yes I've been corrected on the spelling before)

And yet you still spell it wrong. What the fuck, man.

What the fuck.

I have no soul, but I do have the funk.

Two of my friends have given birth to boys since Tomas posted this thread 3 years and 3 months ago, I tried to discuss the issue with both of them, and they both barely heard a word I said, the final word from both of them being that the fathers of the babies wanted the boys circumcised because the...

Life isn't fair, but it is rigged to generally work in my favor, so I can't really complain about it.

Welcome to planet Earth. Try to enjoy your stay.

Tomas wrote:Goldman Sachs Staff Buying Guns

'To Defend Themselves Against Public Uprising'

In a discussion on another board, the consensus seemed to be that there will be no public uprising in the US unless there is a disruption of cable service.

That's it. That's the line in America.

For example, how about the idea to create neurological implants that a person can activate which will make them feel loved or happy or something. I remember that idea being in some science fiction book (I don't remember what one, it was decades ago). The implant would directly stimulate the pleasur...

Ryan, are you familiar with the concept of the Turing machine? It's a great place to start if you want to understand the basics of how computers work without getting into the technical details.

I ALSO ENJOY FOOD WE HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON

Animus wrote:Losers are people who play games to win.

You can't lose if you don't try.

From researching on the internet, it seems that most of the developed world have adopted a banking system that practices some sort of fractional reserve lending, meaning they are able to lend out money that they do not actually have! That is correct, fractional reserve banking is practiced most eve...

Ron Paul idealizes a totally free market as one where corporations are not in bed with government, and the central bank is not corrupt and biased to all the spending bodies of the economic structure. IE: military, oil, and finance. He believes the system would function best with limited government ...

lol "Conventional existence" Indeed. What happens to you all when you get enlightened? For how long is it you that is happening and making it happen? Do people try to get close to you, try to touch you? Do they find reasons to be seen addressing you, saying things like "You're the be...

first there is a mountain/your mundane reality/delusion then there is no mountain/you realize emptiness then there is/form is emptiness (and i agree with Elizabeth Isabelle about needing to return to relative reality to navigate this world) :) Emptiness is exactly what we are talking about here, al...

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For Marx, "false consciousness" (and I cannot even say that he ever used that term himself, but DHodges is the educated man who has studied what others have said about Marx, so he should know...!) is precisely ideological consciousness, and nothing more. The entirety of his work supports ...

Those stories remind me of being in a class on life tables (for life insurance, pension plans, etc.), talking about the "force of mortality," with a lovely graph showing a sharp peak at birth, and mostly a smooth curve rising into the seventies and eighties as people die of old age. But th...

Well, Pye, you are absolutely right that this line of thought eventually goes on to consider the ego, and this is an extremely important part of Buddhism. But I think there is a strong tendancy to get jump right to that stuff - which can have a strong emotional component. Instead, I prefer to think ...

Tomas takes six months to come up with a comeback to Elizabeth, and it is still weak.

I don't interpret it that way. Class consciousness means that one has an awareness of their relation to the means of production in society, or lack-there-of. Well, how relevant is this "relation to the means of production" really? Is it really the dominant factor of economic life? I work ...

I mean what is commonly meant by the word. Any old dictionary definition should do. What is commonly meant by "inherent existence" is that an object exists "from its side." For instance, a chair is inherently a chair, meaning that there are qualities in the object itself (inhere...

I agree that believing in anything without examining evidence is foolish. Perhaps more to the point here, believing it because it says so in the Urantia book or because some guru said it is foolish. Having some sense of what constitutes valid, reliable evidence is a start. Bear in mind I do underst...